Animating Skyrim

Animating Skyrim on The Elder Scrolls Official Site is another lengthy developer diary for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Bethesda's excruciatingly imminent RPG sequel. As before, in addition to the text, this also offers an audio podcast, as well as this trailer on creating the game's animations. "We kind of reinvented the whole thing, and started with a brand new animation system," says lead animator Josh Jones. "From there it was like, what do we do with this? We have a lot of flexibility in terms of NPCs interacting with the environment, with each other. We have much more complex combat [in this game] than we had before."